Senate Republicans are offering their own legislation to extend the payroll tax cut while avoiding an extra surtax on millionaires.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., offered up the plan on Wednesday as an alternative to Senate Democrats’ plan for offsetting the extension with the millionaire surtax. McConnell’s plan, which was introduced as legislation by Sen. Dea

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Tags: Cut, Payroll Tax, Payroll Tax Cut, Tax Cut

Ive been doing that route for 25 years. And never have I felt that these two cites/regions have been more connected at the hip than I do right now.

This past week brought the news that Facebook plans to open an engineering office in NYC. Serkan Piantino, the Facebook engineer who will lead the NYC team said:

This isn’t a satellite office. This is going to be a core part of our engineering stack.

This follows on the heels of eBays Hunch acquisition and the news that eBay will build a team of 200 engineers in NYC. Twitter has a team of engineers in NYC now after the acquisition of Julpan this summer and Zynga has a game development team in NYC as a result of its acquisition of Area/Code almost a year ago.

For many years, Google was the sole big bay area company with a strong engineering presence in NYC. T

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Email marketing utilizes email to send a message to an audience. Cost-effective and easy to use, email marketing has become one of the most common forms of internet marketing. Email marketing can be used for a wide variety of purposes, whether to inform your audience of a new webinar, or to encourage customer loyalty.

Although email marketing campaigns have been utilized by many larger corporations for some time, many small businesses are still shying away from the idea. As a new entrepreneur I will admit, the whole concept seems a bit overwhelming. However, once you really understand how it works and how to run this type of campaign, you will find that it is both simple and worthwhile.

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Any time that you are asking someone for starter personal finance advice, one of the first things that you are going to be told is that you need to have a savings account in your name. But why are you necessarily going to need a savings account? The purpose of this article is going to be to explore the benefits as well as the disadvantages that are associated with having a savings account.

  1. First and foremost, savings accounts provide you with a safe place where you can store your money. Savings accounts are one of the safest places for you to save your money.

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Tags: Account, Savings Account